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air pollution indoors
Broad Question:
Difference of air pollution in between indoor rooms of Kennett Middle School
Specific Question:
How do various environments differ in air quality?
How can we reduce the amount of pollutants in the air?
I think we can reduce the amount of pollutants in the air by using Petroleum jelly to collect them.
Variables
Independent Variable:
rooms (different)Dependent Variable:
PollutantsVariables That Need To Be Controlled:
petroleum jelly, sticky tape, Microscope, knife, scissors, cards
Vocabulary List That Needs Explanation
Petroleum jelly: A type of chemical that collects pollutants, bad for eatingacid rain: precipitation that contains acid
General Plan
I will do my project at school so one of my pets at home won't eat the petroleum jelly as I don't want them to get sick. By doing it at school, I am caring for the health of my pets. I will use cards to collect the pollutants. I will use the petroleum jelly to collect the pollutants, and I will collect and type the data.
Resources and Budget Table
Detailed Procedure
I will first get my petroleum jelly from walmart, then I will put the cards in the rooms with the sticky tape after cutting the tape with the scissors and I've spreaded the petroleum jelly. The cards will collect the pollutants. After that is done, I will use the microscope to analysis the the amount of pollutants.
time Line
3/1-Experiment due
3/7-analysis due
3/15-discussion
3/22-poster due
3/29-kms science fair
Data Table
Data Analysis
I spread petroleum jelly on the cards with a spoon after marking where they will be spread. I went to the cafeteria, woodshop, library, lecture hall, gym, computer room, and science room in team 1 and placed cards with in the rooms with tape. We left them in the rooms for three days to collect the pollution in the rooms. Last Monday, we went to get the cards so we can do the analysis. We analysised through a microscope. We put this on a scale of 1-10. The lowest pollution level was 2 while the highest was 8. Mr.Busch and Mr.Demarino analysised the rest during the weekend and all I had to do was record it on the data table above.
photos
graphs
on a scale of 1-10
The team 1 science room has 5 in pollution levels, the cafeteria has 2 in pollution levels, the gym has 8 in pollution levels, the library also has 2 in pollution levels, the lecture hall has 4 in pollution levels, the team 1 computer room has 6 in pollution levels, and the woodshop has 8 in pollution levels.
Conclusion
The gym and woodshop have high pollution levels in this school while the cafeteria and library have low pollution levels in this school.
Discussion
Background Research
Air pollution can be formed in different greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide(which is what we breath out), methane, and chlorofluorocarbons(until they were banned for their deteriorating effect on Earth's Ozone layer.) Air pollution can change Earth's climate and will cause global warming. Sulfur dioxide and other closely related chemicals can cause acid rain. Acid rain contains sulfuric and nitric chemicals. Lower sulfur dioxide will actually make global warming worse.
References
National geographicAbstract
How do various environments differ in air quality? I think we can reduce the amount of pollutants in the air by using Petroleum jelly to collect them. I told Mr. Demarino and Mr.Busch to buy me petroleum jelly, and tape. Mr. Littlefield had cards. When we got all of our supplies, we spread petroleum jelly on the cards. Mr.Busch took pictures. We went to the cafeteria, woodshop, library, lecture hall, gym, computer room, and science room in team 1 and placed cards in the rooms with tape. We left them in the rooms for three days to collect the pollution in the rooms. On Monday, we started our analysis with a microscope. The microscope was not letting us do the analysis. Mr. littlefield fixed it. We managed to continue the analysis after that. Mr. Busch and Mr. Demarino did the rest for me. I typed down the rest.